You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

For you are our glory and joy!

Nevertheless you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know.

Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

I tell you the solemn truth, you will weep and wail, but the world will rejoice; you will be sad, but your sadness will turn into joy.

And as you Philippians know, at the beginning of my gospel ministry, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in this matter of giving and receiving except you alone.

For you became imitators, brothers and sisters, of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, because you too suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they in fact did from the Jews,

As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill cannot be hidden.

So pray this way: Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored,

For it is not you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

But he replied, “They don’t need to go. You give them something to eat.”

He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’

They said to him, ‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’

In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

So also you, when you see all these things, know that he is near, right at the door.

Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

So do not be overly concerned about what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not worry about such things.

You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”

So also you, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.